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"DNS has recently been dubbed by Gartner Research as “mission-critical” infrastructure and as such, who you select for a DNS provider can have a significant impact on the functionality and performance of your online assets. To help with your research, download this DNS evaluation guide. You will learn the most important functions of a robust DNS provider including:
• Advanced traffic steering from failover to GSLB capabilities
• Rapid record propagation time
• Secondary DNS support
• Security expertise
Keep your brand safe and your user-experience top notch by choosing the best provider for your business. Learn more now!
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"DNS has evolved from a set-it and forget it solution into a mission-critical layer of your online infrastructure. The capabilities of DNS go far beyond speeds, feeds and query resolution. Download this “Rethink DNS” eBook and discover smarter ways to use DNS to optimize performance, build resiliency and manage traffic across hybrid cloud environments.
This eBook covers:
• Why DNS is central to the user experience
• Costs and revenue impact of latency or outages
• Risks and challenges of in-house and managed DNS services
• Selecting the right DNS provider for your business
Download eBook!
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DNS Speed and reliability are fundamental to the performance of your website and essential to the growth of your business. In order to overcome outages and ensure digital success it’s important to evaluate your DNS infrastructure and determine which configuration is best for your IT environment at this layer. Discover how you can use Secondary or Multi-DNS architecture to promote business continuity, and optimal DNS resolution performance.
Download this Technical Brief on Secondary/Multi-DNS patterns and learn:
How multi-DNS patterns can significantly improve security, reliability, and performance of your infrastructure
The advantages and limitations of Primary-Secondary, Hidden Master and Primary-Primary configurations
The best use cases for implementing a supplemental or secondary DNS service

Global DNS performance and availability are critical to business continuity, security and end-user experience. With online applications, content, data and services often scattered across the internet and housed in your own DCs, your CDN or in your cloud instances; it’s more important than ever to have a robust, redundant DNS solution making sure your assets get delivered as quickly and reliably as possible.
This whitepaper reviews the business advantages of implementing a high availability DNS architecture using redundant DNS services. You will learn:
The critical role DNS plays in the user experience
The failure and outage risks of relying on a single DNS solution
The major resiliency and performance differences between unicast vs anycast addressing
Criteria for evaluating a managed DNS service provider
Download Now!

Today’s security appliances and agents must wait until malware reaches the perimeter or endpoint before they can detect or prevent it. OpenDNS arrests attacks earlier in the kill chain. Enforcing security at the DNS layer prevents a malicious IP connection from ever being established or a malicious file from ever being downloaded. This same DNS layer of network security can contain malware and any compromised system from exfiltrating data. Command & control (C2) callbacks to the attacker’s botnet infrastructure are blocked over any port or protocol. Unlike appliances, the cloud service protects devices both on and off the corporate network. Unlike agents, the DNS layer protects every device connected to the network — even IoT. It is the easiest and fastest layer of security to deploy everywhere.

"Nothing kills attacks earlier than DNS-layer security.
Protection both before and during the attack
Attacks have many phases. Before launching, the attacker needs to stage internet infrastructure to support each phase. Two early phases are to redirect or link to a malicious web domain or send a malicious email attachment. For the former, most attacks leverage exploit kits (e.g. Angler) as the first stage before dropping the final payload. Cisco Umbrella effectively blocks initial exploit and phishing domains.

"DNS Speed and reliability are fundamental to the performance of your website and essential to the growth of your business. In order to overcome outages and ensure digital success it’s important to evaluate your DNS infrastructure and determine which configuration is best for your IT environment at this layer. Discover how you can use Secondary or Multi-DNS architecture to promote business continuity, and optimal DNS resolution performance.
Download this Technical Brief on Secondary/Multi-DNS patterns and learn:
• How multi-DNS patterns can significantly improve security, reliability, and performance of your infrastructure
• The advantages and limitations of Primary-Secondary, Hidden Master and Primary-Primary configurations
• The best use cases for implementing a supplemental or secondary DNS service
Learn more!
"

"Global DNS performance and availability are critical to business continuity, security and end-user experience. With online applications, content, data and services often scattered across the internet and housed in your own DCs, your CDN or in your cloud instances; it’s more important than ever to have a robust, redundant DNS solution making sure your assets get delivered as quickly and reliably as possible.
This whitepaper reviews the business advantages of implementing a high availability DNS architecture using redundant DNS services. You will learn:
• The critical role DNS plays in the user experience
• The failure and outage risks of relying on a single DNS solution
• The major resiliency and performance differences between unicast vs anycast addressing
• Criteria for evaluating a managed DNS service provider
Download Now!
"

DNS has recently been dubbed by Gartner Research as “mission-critical” infrastructure and as such, who you select for a DNS provider can have a significant impact on the functionality and performance of your online assets. To help with your research, download this DNS evaluation guide.
You will learn the most important functions of a robust DNS provider including:
Advanced traffic steering from failover to GSLB capabilities
Rapid record propagation time
Secondary DNS support
Security expertise
Keep your brand safe and your user-experience top notch by choosing the best provider for your business. Learn more now!

Press headlines are filled by reports of malware attacks. Malware attacks, once the reserve of amateurs largely for amusement, are now launched by a number of entities. Today, a malware attack can literally come from anywhere in the world and can impact even the largest organization.

Stories about devastating cyberattacks are plaguing the news. Why? The DNS protocol is easy to exploit. See your network the way hackers do—as an easy target. Learn how you can effectively secure your DNS infrastructure today.

DNS is a key part of enterprise networks but increasingly targeted by hackers. Traditional security measures such as next-generation firewalls or secure web gateways won’t shield your infrastructure from attacks. Learn how to protect your DNS today.

An integrated DNS architecture is needed in today’s networking landscape. Designing a secure DNS architecture requires more than increased bandwidth and QPS. Learn how to build a secure and scalable DNS solution to ensure network availability.

This white paper gives you an overview of how you can secure external DNS from cyberattacks and secure internal DNS from infrastructure attacks, APTs and malware that exploit DNS, and data exfiltration via DNS.

To enable always-on application access and business connectivity, you need a rock-solid network foundation. The increasingly complex, dynamic and fluid relationship between networks and devices requires a new approach to IP Address Management (IPAM) – one that unifies mobile security, address management, automation and self-service to provide actionable network intelligence and a broad span of control. This paper discusses the critical role of IPAM in providing a smarter way to connect mobile devices, applications, virtual environments and clouds.

Between the proliferation of mobile devices and the ever increasing amount of content on the web, DNS usage has seen a huge increase in recent years. Meanwhile, DNS continues to be a tempting target for attackers, and when they succeed in disrupting DNS, all external data center services are affected. For organizations confronting these growth and security challenges, F5’s new full proxy architecture for DNS provides a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing.

This paper briefly traces some of the challenges involved with IP address distribution over the past two decades, to the current adoption of DHCP as the dynamic protocol of choice for pain-free management of network resources. Integral to the theme of secure yet reliable network administration is the integration of DNS and DHCP into a single network device called the Adonis DNS/DHCP Appliance which ensures that traditional barriers to secure and effective resource allocations are overcome with an efficient yet easy-to-use solution that enhances enterprise information security.

A DDoS Attack or distributed denial of service attack can happen to any online entity, at any time. By overwhelming your DNS infrastructure, malicious attackers can impair your website, tarnish your company’s reputation, and impact your bottom line. So what are your company’s risks and how can you mitigate them?

Are you doing enough to scale your DNS and protect your business? This paper discusses how a full-proxy architecture for DNS can address those growth and security challenges to provide a complete solution for global, local, and cloud load balancing.